https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/special-parent-series-episode-214-with-dawn/id1499891712?i=1000654791285
For the entire month of May, in honor of Mental Health Awareness Month, Joanna is bringing you a special parent series, where she interviews parents whose children have overcome a variety of mental health challenges. Having grown up as an only child, Dawn didn’t know fully what she was in for when she and her husband brought two boys into the world. When her boys were teenagers, they began experimenting with drugs and alcohol. Dawn initially thought that maybe this was just “boys being boys” or “typical teen stuff.” By his sophomore year, one of Dawn’s sons was experimenting with harder drugs and an undeniable pattern emerged: a few weeks of sobriety, followed by a bender of a similar length in time with life threatening outcomes. Dawn shares vulnerably with listeners the journey that she and her family have been on and also discusses her book, Chasing Carson, that details the family’s fight for Carson’s sobriety.
For the entire month of May, in honor of Mental Health Awareness Month, Joanna is bringing you a special parent series, where she interviews parents whose children have overcome a variety of mental health challenges. Having grown up as an only child, Dawn didn’t know fully what she was in for when she and her husband brought two boys into the world. When her boys were teenagers, they began experimenting with drugs and alcohol. Dawn initially thought that maybe this was just “boys being boys” or “typical teen stuff.” By his sophomore year, one of Dawn’s sons was experimenting with harder drugs and an undeniable pattern emerged: a few weeks of sobriety, followed by a bender of a similar length in time with life threatening outcomes. Dawn shares vulnerably with listeners the journey that she and her family have been on and also discusses her book, Chasing Carson, that details the family’s fight for Carson’s sobriety.